{"id":5339,"date":"2012-08-01T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T05:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/nashvillereview\/?p=5339"},"modified":"2015-02-16T10:18:14","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T16:18:14","slug":"strange-victory-strange-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/5339","title":{"rendered":"Strange Victory, Strange Defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the speared nub<br \/>\nof his unopened umbrella,<\/p>\n<p>the man stabs<br \/>\nat the snake\u2019s taut stalk<\/p>\n<p>of a body.<br \/>\nInvisible hands,<\/p>\n<p>invisible arms, invisible feet,<br \/>\nthe snake rises up<\/p>\n<p>straight in response.<br \/>\nBetween the trees<\/p>\n<p>late morning wads<br \/>\nof sunshine douse<\/p>\n<p>both man and snake in light.<br \/>\nThe umbrella\u2019s handle<\/p>\n<p>is dark brown, custom-made.<br \/>\nO how the abandoned<\/p>\n<p>abandon<br \/>\nthe abandoned<\/p>\n<p>abandon the abandoned.<\/p>\n<p>The snake is very real<br \/>\nand very alert.<\/p>\n<p>Watch.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/5465\">Jeff Alessandrelli<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the speared nub of his unopened umbrella, the man stabs at the snake\u2019s taut stalk of a body. Invisible hands, invisible arms, invisible feet, the snake rises up straight in response. Between the trees late morning wads of sunshine douse both man and snake in light. The umbrella\u2019s handle is dark brown, custom-made. O [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-1o7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10257,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5339\/revisions\/10257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}